Are we really that stupid and demoralized, or is Big Bro at work again?
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As I wrote a few days ago (here and also in my comments here), I am astounded at the failure of "alternative" websites to promote or even mention the March 20 protest in Washington. I hasten to pronounce OpEdNews not guilty, since they have announced it here, and even headlined my note for a day -- to which there was no response from the readership whatever, which again astounds me.
Also not guilty, and in view of the situation I guess I should say heroic (gulp, if that's what things have come to), are the following, according to a quick survey I did yesterday:
ANSWER Coalition with list of endorsers here
US Green Party (Cynthia McKinney et al)
Veterans Today
There are others, but this is just a random sampling of the sites I happened to visit. In that random sampling, however, lies my astonishment, because otherwise I rely on sites like these for real news, as opposed to the Crimestop and Doublethink force-fed pablum we get from the mainstream. Here are the pages where I saw NO MENTION of the March 20 protest in Washington at all, in the random order that they happened to occur to me:
antiwar.com
greenparty.org
libertarianparty.com
911truth.org
commondreams.org
truthout.org
salon.com
rawstory.com
MoveOn.org
UnitedforPeace.org
sagaw.org (Service Academy Graduates Against the War)
CodePinkAlert.org
infowars.com
prisonplanet.com
globalresearch.ca
informationclearinghouse.info
wsws.org
At that point, I stopped and sent an email to Kurt Nimmo of infowars.com, asking him why the Alex Jones org (I think he has literally millions of listeners and readers) was not promoting the March 20 demonstration. I said his answer would be seen (at least accessible) to my ca. 2000 Facebook friends, so he knows it would be public. He wrote back: "If you want to write an article about it, we will post. Unfortunately, I am but one person and do not have time to write about every event."
http://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?f=Websites-NOT-promoting-the-by-Michael-David-Morr-100315-60.html